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The World of the Sixties and its Collapse in the Strugackij Brothers' Dilogy ("Monday Begins on Saturday" and "The Tale of the Troika")

Student: Pakhomova Ekaterina

Supervisor: Oleg Lekmanov

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities

Educational Programme: Philology (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2021

This study is devoted to how the Strugackijs' stories about magicians ("Monday Begins on Saturday "and two editions of "Tale of the Troika") reflect the authors' commitment to the ideas of the Sixties, people who lived in the Thaw era and believed in "socialism with a human face". The aim is to consider these stories as a dilogy, a whole story about the disillusionment of the generation of the Sixties, but not in the ideals of communism, but in the Soviet system. In the first chapter, with the help of a detailed analysis of "Monday", it is shown how writers depicted not only the world of the Sixties and their ideology (the cult of friendship, work and science), but also the problem of different perceptions of the concept of "communism "(a society where everyone is engaged in useful and creative work – in the interpretation of the intelligentsia and "bourgeois" – in the interpretation of the authorities, members of the CPSU). In the second chapter of the work, attention is paid to the "Tale of the Troika", its place in the literary tradition (how the themes raised in it relate to other Soviet and foreign books) and its literary techniques used by the Strugackijs to demonstrate the deformation, destruction of the world and the ideology of the Sixties in the space of the text.

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